Advertising device



Apr. 17,1923.

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Patented Apr. 17, 1923.

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LLOYD HENRY rS'IERNER, HENRY M. LANDROTH, AND MJINNIE ESTELLA. STERNER,0F FREMONT, NEBRASKA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application filed February 1, 1921. Serial No. 441,708.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, LLOYD H. STERNER, HENRY M. LANDROTH, and MINNIE E.STERNER, citizens of the United States, residing at Fremont, in thecounty of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is aspecification. l

The invention relates to improvements 1n advertising devices, and moreespecially to a novel form of sign support for display of advertisingmatter thereon.

The primary object of the invention is to provide for a device of thetype mentioned, and one of a comparatively simple and inexpensiveconstruction and arrangement of the parts thereof.

Another object of the invention is to provide for a portable displaysign support, and one which is adapted for use on the sidewalk in frontof a place of business, and capable of movement in the wind whereby toattract the attention of persons passing in its vicinity, but which willalways return to a vertical position when not affected by the wind.

A further object of the invention is to provide for a sign support ofthe character set forth, and one which is practically indestructibleunder eXtreme hard usage or exposure to the weather.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the inventionresides inthe certain novel and useful construction and arrangement` of parts aswill be hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the appendedclaims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 isa rear elevation,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view, and,

Fig. 4.- is a vertical section through the base of the sign support.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 10 indicates a base member of anysuitable form, or substantially semi-spherical as shown, having itscurved face acting as the supporting surface thereof, but to hold theupper flat face thereof normally parallel to the ground, this curvedface is slightly fiattened medially of the same, as in 10', so

that, should a rocking movement be imparted to the base, the same willalways return to normal position. This base 10 is preferable of asuitable amount of metal cast or molded to proper form, and rising`medially from the upper flat face is the standard or post 11, which hasits lower end split to provide outwardly flared inherent anchoringportions 11', so as to be firmly imbedded in the metal cast or moldedaround the same. The standard 11 may be a pipe section as shown, or of asolid rod formation as desired, and in either case, the upper end of thesame is bifurcated, as at 12, for the reception therein of a signboardor disk 13, as the case may be, of galvanized sheet metal or the like,the board or disk being secured in position within the slot orbifurcation 12 by means of suitable fastenings or bolts 14. If desired,the board or disk 13 may be provided on one side, preferably the rearside, with a horizontally eX- tending reinforcing element or strip 15,of angle iron or the like, or the same may be otherwise made rigid as byforming a clip or groove across the face thereof in lieu of the strip15.

In the use of the device, the signboard or disk 13 may have any desiredadvertising matter applied directly to one or both faces thereof as bypainting the same thereon, or gluing printed sheets to the facesthereof, or the same may be formed in the ,faces as by stamping,embossing, or otherwise in any suitable or known manner.

The device thus pro-vided is particularly designed for use in the open,so that the slightest wind breeze will cause it to rock in a manner toattract the attention of passersby, the same always returning to avertical position when not being affected by a current of wind, or ifthe same should be otherwise forced out of its normal ver ticalposition.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed, is As a newarticle of manufacture, a combined portable and tiltable sign havinginherent means to automatically cause it to assume a vertical positionwhen shifted from perpendicular and when pressure is removed therefrom,and comprising a tubular standard having' a, relatively shortlongitudinal split at its inner end disposed with respect to thelongitudinal axis thereof and providing a pair of semi-cylindrical shortportions, each lslightly flared, and asolid metal base of substantiallyse1ni-spherieal-form cast around the lower portion of and depending fromthe lower terminus of said standard and having its outer peripheryuninterrupted throughout.

In testimony whereof, We afiix our signatures hereto.

LLOYD HENRY STERNER. HENRY M. LANDROTH. MINNIE ESTELLA STERNER.

